We have removed the tuner allocation and it now has dynamic allocation with the tuner. This means that when the TiVo Mini goes to find a tuner it will find one that is available. If you are recording on all four tuners that means that he will not find a tuner to be able to watch from the Main TiVo box.

We have removed the tuner allocation and it now has dynamic allocation with the tuner. This means that when the TiVo Mini goes to find a tuner it will find one that is available. If you are recording on all four tuners that means that he will not find a tuner to be able to watch from the Main TiVo box.

I probably could have predicted that response.

Have you thought about setting up a repeating manual recording and putting it at the top of the priority list? Whenever all tuners are in use and he wants to surf, he can stop and delete that recording.

Have you thought about setting up a repeating manual recording and putting it at the top of the priority list? Whenever all tuners are in use and he wants to surf, he can stop and delete that recording.

That's a good idea. I also canceled our suspense movie recordings and it seems we mostly have a tuner available. Kind of annoying, though.

I am having a hard time with your problem, if you reserved one tuner as you did before DTA you can't record 4 things at once, so if you were not recording 4 things before what changed ??

To OP:

As mentioned previously in above quote, you still have use of the same 3 tuners you always had to record the other programs when the tuner was dedicated to the mini, so why all the sudden is it an issue now that dynamic tuner allocation has occurred? If anything it gives you more recording options for the times the mini isn't being used for live tv!

Tonight I found myself with the same issue as the OP. I was getting the 'no tuner for live TV available' message on the Mini. However, the Premiere was only recording 3 shows at the time. A restart of the Premiere 4 fixed the problem.

Tonight I found myself with the same issue as the OP. I was getting the 'no tuner for live TV available' message on the Mini. However, the Premiere was only recording 3 shows at the time. A restart of the Premiere 4 fixed the problem.

That's expected in some circumstances.

Remember the host has a tuner for itself to output live-tv. If live-tv on the host happens to be one of the recording channels, then 4 channels can be recorded. But if it is a different channel, then all 4 tuners are taken up by 3 recording shows and the host live-tv show, and in that case the Mini will not be able to get a tuner until one is freed up (by either stopping a recording or changing the host live-tv tuner to one of the recording shows.)

The Premiere appeared to have three tuners (all recording) and one tuner appeared to still be tied to the Mini (live TV). This was the correct behavior prior to the most recent update. However, that update should have corrected that with the inclusion of DTA. I checked immediately after the restart. The behavior was different than prior to the restart. The restart clearly corrected the issue, as was also suggested by previous posters in this thread.

I remembered seeing this thread a while back. I thought that a post on what I experienced may help someone in a similar circumstance, just as previous posts had helped me.

Ah, I misunderstood, sorry. I thought you were complaining about a general situation of only recording 3 shows, but instead you were saying that a one-time reboot to set up DTA correctly might be needed (and I agree with that).

The Premiere appeared to have three tuners (all recording) and one tuner appeared to still be tied to the Mini (live TV). This was the correct behavior prior to the most recent update. However, that update should have corrected that with the inclusion of DTA. I checked immediately after the restart. The behavior was different than prior to the restart. The restart clearly corrected the issue, as was also suggested by previous posters in this thread.

I remembered seeing this thread a while back. I thought that a post on what I experienced may help someone in a similar circumstance, just as previous posts had helped me.

It's also possible that prior to the restart, you had 3-tuners recording and the foreground tuner in "Live TV" tied to the Premiere. After the restart, the foreground tuner might be on one of the recording channels and thus a tuner is available to the Mini. The only way to test this is, if it happens again, make one of the recording tuners the foreground tuner and see if a tuner becomes available to the Mini.